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@engVid: "Memes" are kind of like "viral"-they're images, videos, phrases, or ideas that get passed around and remixed with captions or Photoshop. A little bit weird, but funny and interesting.

Learn from English songs, find idioms, write your own autobiography and more ideas.

Excellent exercises to help you improve your writing: generating ideas, determining your audience, choosing your writing style, organizing essays, writing the intro and conclusion and many others.

Story tools has a collection of tools to analyze your writing. For example, you can paste your essay here and check "readability" (it analyzes your sentences (long/short), use of passives, articles, verbs, etc) or clichés, word count, etc. It also works well to help you create your own stories (use the "story idea generator" button). Why don't you try using some of these tools before handing in your writing to your teacher? :)

"The MIT Video website - developed and maintained by the MIT News Office - aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centers and administration. This includes feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. Each day, the editorial team at MIT Video selects one or more videos to "spotlight" based on the videos' content, production value and timeliness"

English Listening comprehension exercises and practice for learning and study. Ideas and activities for ESL students and teachers.

You may be in Basic 1 or Advanced 2, but what is your real level of English in the different skills? Use this tool to get an idea.

Excellent tool to help you work on writing a rough draft organizing your ideas before actually starting to write!